From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs Mailing List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: help et. al - use different frame instead of splitting frame?
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 12:35:10 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8U5Z22cCbiqFac0KpH0s+2ZVMnE=wn5x4OSpFVUtTX0MQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttj0rzv1.fsf@librehacker.com>
On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 08:57, Christopher Howard
<christopher@librehacker.com> wrote:
> Hi, use Emacs with multiple frames, one on each monitor, and typically one window per frame. Now that I have lots of frame space, I find it annoying when functions like (describe-function) split the frame I am on. I am wondering if it is possible to change something so that functions like that instead display the buffer in a different frame.
>
> Looking for someplace to start, I dove down into `describe-function' source code and eventually found myself trying to hack temp-buffer-window-show
You either went too deep or not deep enough ;)
The place you want is called display-buffer-alist and it’s a variable
containing rules for activating various windows. See the manual and
one of several tutorials on it, like this one:
https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/demystifying-emacs-window-manager
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2024-05-14 18:51 help et. al - use different frame instead of splitting frame? Christopher Howard
2024-05-15 2:38 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-06-24 6:19 ` Björn Bidar
[not found] ` <87v81ylv5f.fsf@>
2024-06-24 14:31 ` Drew Adams
2024-05-15 5:35 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
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